In “The five things no one will tell you about why colleges don’t hire more faculty of color,” a piece first published in the Hechinger Report, Marybeth Gasman took on a common question: Why aren’t college faculties more racially diverse?
It’s a question gaining increased urgency from student protesters demanding change on campuses nationally.
Gasman is a professor of higher education in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, where she directs the Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions and holds secondary appointments in history, Africana studies, and the School of Social Policy and Practice.
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Penn is to the Ivy League what Mississippi is to the nation: dead last in everything and more at home as a small, joke nation in, say, eastern Europe. Transistria, or whatever. Penn is an embarrassment just like Mississippi.
It’s a question gaining increased urgency from student protesters demanding change on campuses nationally.
Gasman is a professor of higher education in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, where she directs the Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions and holds secondary appointments in history, Africana studies, and the School of Social Policy and Practice.
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Penn is to the Ivy League what Mississippi is to the nation: dead last in everything and more at home as a small, joke nation in, say, eastern Europe. Transistria, or whatever. Penn is an embarrassment just like Mississippi.
